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(No Model.)

No. 359,150. Patented Mar. 8, 1887.

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\VOLFF HAGELBERG, OF BERLIN, GERMANY.

SUPPORT FOR PICTURE-CARDS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 359,150, dated March 8,1887.

Application filed August 3, ittfi. Serial No. 209,849. (No model.)Patented in England May 11, 1886, No. 6,359.

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, W OLFF HAGELBERG, a subject of the Emperor ofGermany, and a resident of Berlin, Germany, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Supports for Picture-Cards and the Like, (patented in Great Britain by Letters Patent No. 6,359, dated May 1].,1886,) of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improved construction of a device forming aself-supporting card, menu, photograph, picture, Christmas and New Yearscard, or the like, for their better display, or which may be used to support cards, photographs, mirrors, 850., in a position suitable fordisplay and practical use.

The supporting devices hitherto employed for this purpose are usuallyquite distinct from the card or photograph to be displayed, and arefrequently unsightly, besides offering difficulty for a substantialattachment to the supported article. My device is superior to sucharrangements, in so far as it absolutely forms, or in all cases appearsto form, a part of the card or article to be exhibited as, when lying inthe flat, the supporting device forms a frame around the card orpicture, and when the latter has been raised for display the completedevice still forms an ornamental and perfect whole.

My device consists of a frame surrounding the card, picture, or articleto be exhibited, and connected to the latter 011 one side only, beingseparated from it on the other sides by means of a slit. The outline orform of the interior card, picture, or article to be displayed may bedesigned according to taste, and may thus be rendered highly ornamental,the frame being equally capable of ornamentation both in surface,lcolor, and form, such ornamentation in no way interfering with themechanical action of my device, but aiding much to its picturesqueeffect. This ornamentation may be in the fiat or embossed in relief, andmay be colored or not. That part of the frame opposite to the connectingside I divide by means of a slot or slit of suitable width, the edges ofwhich may be straight or curved. On either side of this slit each arm ofthe frame is provided with a slit reaching from the inner edge to thecenter of one arm, and

from the outer edge to the center of the other; or, instead of theseslits,which are preferable, one arm may be provided with a hook and theother with a loop or eye. The supporting at an angle and display of thecentral card or other article is effected as follows: The arms of theframe are drawn over one another until they mutually interlock in thecross-slits above described. The width of the frame is thus reduced atone end and it thus becomes arched, and thereby raises the centralportion, displaying the card, menu, photographs, or other article.

For the purposes of this invention it is neccssary that the material ofwhich the frame is made shall be flexible and allow of being bent. I maytherefore use thin sheet metal, stiff paper, or similar material. herethe article to be exhibited is a card, it may be conveniently made fromstiff paper in one piece with the frame or supporting device. If itisaphotograph, mirror, &c., it may be firmly connected to the centralportion of mydevice, and thus to the supporting-frame on one side.

In order that my device may be the better understood, I now proceed toillustrate the same in the accompanying sheet of drawings, referencebeing had to the letters and figures marked thereon.-

Like letters refer to like parts throughout the drawings.

Figure 1 is a plan of the said device lying fiat. Fig. 2 is a section ofsame in position. Fig. 3 is a plan in position. Fig. 4 is a backelevation in position. Figs. 5 and 6 are plans of modified forms of mydevice lying flat. Fig. 7 shows a mirror fitted with my device lyingfiat. Figs. Sand 9 show two details.

In all the figures, A is the article to be exhibited. B B is thesurrounding frame, divided by means of aslot, 12, into the arms B B. Thelatter are formed with slits cc, reaching to the middle of theframe--one from the outer edge and the other from the inner edge. a isthe space between the article to be exhibited, A, and the frame B B. Themirror A (shown in Fig. 7) is fitted with a fixed frame, A, connected onone side with the supporting-frame B B by means of a hinge-strip,f.Figs. 8 and 9 show a form of hook, cl, and eye 6 which might be employedin place of the slits 0 c.

Having now fully described and ascertained the nature of my saidinvention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare thatwhat I claim is- 1. A device for placing or exhibiting cards,photographs, mirrors, &c., consisting of a frame, B B, surrounding theobject A to be placed or exhibited, connected to the latter on one sideand divided therefrom on the opposite side by means of a slit into twoarms, 13 B, the placing or exhibiting of the object A being effected bythe arms B B being slid over one another and engaged, substantially asspecified.

2. A frame, 13 B, provided with slits or re- I 5 cesses c c, for thepurpose of fixing the arms in position and engaging the same when theyare slid over one another, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my 20 name to this specification inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

\VOLFF HAGELBERG.

Witnesses:

CHAPMAN COLEMAN, FREDK. V. T. CRosLY,

Second Secretary of Legat'ion.

